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MitWelt

The main purpose of Mitwelt is to shift the paradigm of the social networking from the online communication to the real one. The project is intended to boost the real-life interaction, using the Internet but not merely attract more audience into the meshes of yet another social media. Mitwelt is solely a German-oriented product, which helps users to find people who share their worldview and/or hobbies and arrange meetings with them.

Platform:

iOS

Technologies:

PHP (Lumen/Laravel), Microservices architecture, Kotlin Java, NodeJS (Web sockets), Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS, Swift, CoreData, RXJava, Realm

Tools:

PHP Storm, Docker containers, Jenkins (CI), DataGrip, X-Code

Country of Origin:

Germany

Year completed:

2017 (support continues)

Project Duration:

8 months

Industry:

Social Networking

Size of Team:

Development approach

The team desired to establish a strong connection with the customer and create the atmosphere of mutual understanding and sympathy. It was important for the project as its main aim is to boost live human interaction. Therefore, the visit to Munich was a first significant step in the process of development, which helped to shape the exact vision of the project. In order to achieve flawless performance in terms of speed, the team decided to use AWS and CoreData.

Results achived

Mitwen was successfully released in 2017 and quickly gained in popularity. Despite its relatively small PR company and narrow targeting as for social media, the application was downloaded 2 thousand times and reached a thousand of active users in a month. The users received a convenient tool, which helps to navigate in the fast-paced society. Mitwelt uses GPS to determine user’s location so he or she can